Friday, April 21, 2017

Online Supplements to Palilia

The volumes of the series called "Palilia" existing since 1997 by
the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) are not
only impressive on account of their excellent readability but also
their handy size. In order to guarantee this continuously and to allow
the publication of works based on extensive documentation of
archaeological material at the same time, CoDArchLab and the DAI Rome
are treading a new path of archaeological publication: Supplementation
of printed works by digital provision of additional materials using the
adapted book structure. The volumes of the Palilia-serie themselves are
independent and completely comprehensible in their reasoning. At the
same time they are also readable and manageable. Readers who want to see
details of the material are invited to take a look at the catalogues of
each volume available in Arachne. On this page you get to the
individual supplements of the Palilia-volumes. If you are interested in
the volumes themselves, please contact the Reichert Verlag (link: http://www.reichert-verlag.de)

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.